Yazoo & M. V. R. v. Cockerham

*894This suit was instituted in the circuit court to recover damages because of fatal injuries sustained by I. Gr. Cockerham, a brakeman in the employ of the appellant railroad company. The suit is brought under the fe4eral Employers’ Liability Act (IT. S. Comp. St., sections 8657-8665). The deceased, Cockerham, sustained fatal injuries while attempting to effect a coupling between the tender of the engine and the first car of the train.

The cause was submitted to the jury and a verdict returned in favor of the appellee, administrator, plaintiff in. the court below, for the sum of thirty thousand…